In part because of the recent controversy about downvoting questions for Roomba, @Shog9, myself, and others had a long conversation attempting to address the real problem: what are the goals of tag ...

We currently have tons of burnination-requests that some day someone needs review*, and they keep arriving. Stack Overflow is filled with bad tags.
Our guidance What is the process for tag removal (...

There is a burnination in process for godaddy Should we burninate [godaddy]? There's been a plea for community assistance Assisting with [godaddy] deletions and out of this there is controversy over ...

There are many pages of tags on SO and many of them are used for only a few questions.
Fortunately, this means that it's super obvious when a tag should go (namely when there's no wiki and existing ...

I've been using Stack Overflow for quite some time, and I don't ever seem to recall the volume of burninate requests that currently pollutes meta like a virus. I think the current system for handling ...

I noticed a good amount of burninate-request here on meta which have been completed, but have not been marked status-completed. I went to 7 of these posts today, and after verifying that their tags ...

A user is currently suggesting edits to remove the setstyle tag from different questions.
How should I handle this? I thought that burnination should always be performed after discussing it on meta ...

Introduction
Lately, I've seen a lot of burninate-requests for tags that are about concepts unrelated to programming, such as booking, donations, shop and more. These tags are not programming related ...

I notice this answer on a recent burninate-request expressing frustration that some process has not been followed.
I'm a reasonably regular participant on meta and wasn't aware of either of the two ...

Many burninate requests argue that if no one is an expert in a given tag, we should burninate. If this is true, should we burninate string and array as well? No one's really a string expert IMHO, and ...

I'm fairly new to meta, but I have noticed over the past few months that a large proportion of highly upvoted questions (those I see through "Hot Meta Posts") tend to be tag-burnination-related.
It ...

In current implementation, tag creation is simple. As explained here, any user with more than 1500 reputation can just type any string in the Tags box while asking/editing the question and that's it.
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99 times already we have discussed burninating tags. Scrolling through those questions it is obvious that most such requests should be acted upon. Yet, we probably have covered only 1% of the useless ...

I just have noticed1, that several tags for online code judge engines like spoj, codechef, project-euler seemingly were burninated on SO.
I'm pretty sure, that at least the spoj was there, since I've ...

The question Do we really need [max] and [min]? currently has the top two voted answers "for" the burnination at +34 and +27.
The next answer is against the idea and is on +12.
Is that a significant ...

I am well aware of the general Burnination process for tags. Does this process also apply to tags on Meta Stack Overflow? If not, is there a specific procedure for burninating an unneeded tag on Meta ...

I've just approved a suggested edit removing the fortify360 tag.
I didn't know Fortify but looking at the tag wiki it looked like Fortify 360 didn't exist any more and the question didn't mention it ...